Catherynne M. Valente Quotes About Labyrinth

Quotes about: Labyrinth

• A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Labyrinth, World, Enough

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.524, Macmillan

• What came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there was never a beforethis nor will there be an afternow. I am accepting. This is not a thing to be solved, or conquered, or destroyed. It is. I am. We are. We conjugate together in darkness, plotting against each other, the Labyrinth to eat me and I to eat it, each to swallow the hard, black opium of the other. We hold orange petals beneath our tongues and seethe. It has always been so. It grinds against me and I bite into its skin.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Orange, Darkness

• I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Clothes, House, Labyrinth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.199, Macmillan

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